sympotic

comparative more sympotic · superlative most sympotic

1. historicalOf or pertaining to the Ancient Greek symposium.

   Possibly a reminder of Alcibiades' late, drunken arrival in Plato's "Symposium," which had become a convention of sympotic literature.

   1996, R. Bracht Branham, Daniel Kinney, Satyrica, University of California Press, footnote 65.1, page 59

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   "Athenaeus, whose Deipnosophistae remains one of our most valuable sources of ancient testimonia about the symposium, apparently had some notion of sympotic reclining as a practice connected to luxruy and moral laxity, but the Athenians do not seem to have shared this view."

   2012, Kathryn Topper, The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium, Cambridge University Press, page 7

   Synonyms: symposiac, sympotical